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Board of Directors
The Board is the principal decision making body and focuses on ensuring the organization is moving toward its strategic mission through a combination of industry positioning, key partnerships, membership, and funding. To maintain separation between long term objectives and nearer term development roadmaps, the Board looks to the management team and the Technical Steering Committee to apply development resources to projects based on the needs of members. The Board is made up of appointed individuals from each Core Member, a Club director representing the interests of all Club members and the CEO. The Board meeting minutes are available to download here. More details can be found in the Foundation's Articles of Association and Rules of Membership.
ARM - Mike Muller
Mike Muller was one of the founders of ARM. Before joining the Company, he was responsible for hardware strategy and the development of portable products at Acorn Computers. He was previously at Orbis Computers. At ARM he was VP, Marketing from 1992 to 1996 and EVP, Business Development until October 2000 when he was appointed Chief Technology Officer. In October 2001, he was appointed to the board of ARM.
IBM - Mark Ireland
Mark Ireland is Vice President, Semiconductor Products and Services with worldwide responsibility for IBM's OEM semiconductor business. In his current role he is responsible for defining strategy, offering development, and providing clients with a gateway to IBM's semiconductor technology, intellectual property and design services. Prior to this current appointment, Mark was the Vice President of Semiconductor Platforms overseeing the marketing, business development and ecosystem expansion for the Common PlatformTM manufacturing alliance between IBM, Samsung, and Global Foundries.
Mark joined IBM in 1984 as a design engineer at IBM Toronto, Canada. Since then he has held a series of management positions in manufacturing, engineering, marketing, strategy, and business development. He is a founding member of the Open Service Gateway initiative (www.osgi.org), Power.org (www.power.org), SOI Industry Consortium (www.soiconsortium.org), and currently serves on the board of directors for Global Semiconductor Alliance (www.gsaglobal.org). Ireland earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 1984.
Linaro - George Grey
George has led software and hardware technology companies for over 25 years, gaining wide ranging expertise in business strategy, product development, sales and marketing. Early in his career he spent 12 years as founder and then CEO of Tadpole Technology plc, a developer of advanced mobile workstations. More recently at SavaJe, a pioneer of Smartphone operating systems, he developed a deep understanding of advanced software technologies, and worked with partners and customers across the entire mobile industry. George has built a reputation for leading and growing technology companies, and brings to Linaro extensive experience in creating innovative products and solutions for global markets.
Texas Instruments - Ari Rauch
Ari Rauch is the senior director of software and system engineering for Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) wireless OMAPTM processor group. In this role, Rauch manages software and system engineering activities - from research and architecture phases to production and commercialization - for TI's proven OMAP application processors. This includes leading integration and support for Linux-based, high-level operating systems, and initiatives to fully leverage OMAP processors' capabilities through open-source innovation. Among other tasks, Rauch is responsible for spearheading TI's embedded Linux activities and spurring on the open-source focused culture that TI believes will move the industry forward. He oversees the India, Nice and Dallas development centers, encouraging more than 650 employees to drive OMAP processor successes in the dynamic mobile and consumer electronics markets. Rauch joined TI more than ten years ago. Before his current position, he served as the senior director for system engineering for TI's cellular and connectivity solutions, the chief operating officer for wireless connectivity solutions, and the general manager of the Bluetooth® technology business unit. Prior to joining TI, Rauch acted as the R&D manager for Butterfly Inc., which TI acquired in 1999.
Rauch holds an executive master's degree from the Kellog and Tel-Aviv business schools, and a bachelor's degree in electronics from Tel Aviv University in Israel.